Southbrook Farmhouse

Southbrook Farmhouse is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating to the 16th or 17th century with later additions. It is constructed of stone and cob, with some parts covered in old roughcast and 20th-century render. The right-hand end is thatched, and the left-hand end is covered with corrugated iron. The roof is half-hipped to the right and hipped with a gablet to the left. A rendered granite chimney stack, originally serving a hall, is located on the ridge, off-centre to the right, with an added brick shaft. A smaller rendered stack is located in the right-hand gable.

The building likely started with a 3-room and through-passage plan, the hall stack backing onto the passage. It was later extended at the upper end and a rear wing was built out to create a T-plan layout. The front elevation is long, with only three second-storey windows grouped at the left-hand end. The original front door, centrally located on the right-hand side, has been converted into a 20th-century window with brick jambs and a metal casement. To its right is a 19th-century wood casement window of two lights, each with eight panes. To the left of that is a 20th-century wood-framed window, and further left, a similar 19th-century wood casement window of two lights, each with eight panes, set within an earlier, partly blocked opening. The left-hand end of the building has a doorway with a plank door to the right, and two 19th-century windows to the left. The right-hand window is a three-light wood casement, each light with two panes, while the left-hand window is a two-light wood casement, each light with six panes. The two second-storey windows at this end have 20th-century wood casements with small panes. The only other second-storey window is above the partly-blocked ground-storey window, and is of a similar type with six panes per light. The right-hand gable, facing into the hamlet, has two 19th-century wood casement windows in the second storey, each of two lights with six panes per light.

Inside, the hall features a high-quality granite fireplace with a rectangular, hollow-chamfered opening. A good relieving arch, partially obscured by ceiling beams, has two shaped pieces of granite filling the space above the lintel. A chamfered ceiling beam is present with no visible stops. The former inner room, now the entrance and stair hall, has a few chamfered joists with cut-off ends. The roof at the upper end was mostly rebuilt in the 20th century, but the remainder appears to be 18th or early 19th century, with plain principal rafters; the collars are pegged to their faces. There are no common rafters, just thick thatching spars laid on the backs of the trusses.